Athens Photo Festival 2026
Main Program, Benaki Museum / Pireos 138
10 June – 26 July 2026 | Athens | Greece
Sama Alshaibi is participating in the Main Program of Athens Photo Festival 2026 with six mixed-media collage works from Tterss (Palimpsest) and the video Roadwork. Presented at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, the festival brings together 70 artists from around the world whose work considers the role of photography and visual culture in shaping contemporary public life.
Tterss (Palimpsest) draws from Alshaibi’s return to Iraq after four decades, using photography, archival fragments, LiDAR scans, and layered material processes to consider memory, rupture, urban transformation, and the unstable legacies of war. The works are exhibited alongside an international group of artists including Carmen Winant, Taysir Batniji, Hashem Shakeri, Laura Pannack, Bharat Sikka, Hicham Benohoud, Tanya Traboulsi, Randa Mirza, and Thana Faroq, among others.
“Cite Without Seeing” from the project “Tterss”
Mixed media collage, 2025
Arizona Biennale 2026
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
May 22 - Sept 27, 2026
The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block (TMA) presents Arizona Biennial 2026, a highly anticipated exhibition celebrating contemporary artists from across the state. On view in the James J. and Louise R. Glasser and Earl Kai Chann Galleries, this exhibition highlights the diverse voices, perspectives, and practices of artists living and working throughout Arizona.
The 2026 exhibition is juried by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, the executive director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) at UC Berkeley. Alshaibi is presenting a new work from her latest project, Tterss (Palimpsest).
“Tabula Rasa” from the project “Tterss”
Mixed media collage, 2026
The Lost Paintings: a Prelude to Return
currently on view at the Bristol Art Museum & Art Gallery
Queens Rd, Bristol, BS8 1RL
June 19 – September 27, 2026
Curated by Rula Khoury, Joëlle Tomb, and Haidi Motola, this powerful international exhibition brings together 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora to reimagine the lost works of Maroun Tomb, an exhibition originally erased by the Nakba in 1947 and rediscovered through archival research. The internationally touring exhibition debuted in a two-part installation at articule and MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and has also shown in London, Boston, and Belfast.
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Sama Alshaibi's photograph “Like Sugar From Ashes” is featured in the touring exhibition.